The Virtual Sydney Rocks Guidebook

128 Cumberland Street

No 128 is the detached bungalow house at the right
Photographed in 1901 by Charles H. Bertie
NSW State Archives and Records
Digital Id: 4481_a026_000027

Constructed: c1833
Demolished: c1920

The larger detached house at number 128 was built by Albert Nicholas c1833 at the same time as the four conjoined terraces at numbers 120-126 Cumberland Street. The new buildings replaced a row of tenements built by George Cribb circa 1823. Number 126 was demolished in the early 1920s.

Owners
c1813-c1824 George Cribb
c1833-1834 Albert John Nicholas (Developer)

Tenants
1880-1881 Stephen Doyle(painter/decorator), wife Margaret (nee Galvin and formerly McNamara) and daughters Charlotte (1860) and Margaret (1862)
1881-c1908 Margaret Doyle (nee Galvin and formerly McNamara) and daughters Charlotte (1860) and Margaret (1862)
c1908-1919 Margaret Doyle

Further Information

Inside the Rocks: The Archaeology of a Neighbourhood.
by Grace Karskens.
ISBN 0 86806 666 4

Keeping up with the McNamaras
A Historical Archaeological Study of the Cumberland and Gloucester Streets site (pdf)
by Penny Crook, Laila Ellmoos and Tim Murray.

Assessment of Historical and Archaeological Resources
of the Cumberland and Gloucester Streets site, The Rocks, Sydney (word doc)
by Penny Crook, Laila Ellmoos and Tim Murray.

Pieces of the Past Teacher Resource Pack

Cumberland Street Dig Site NSW Heritage & Conservation Register
The Big Dig Archaeology Education Centre Sydney Harbour YHA
Cumberland Street Archaeological site The Dirt on the Rocks
Sydney Harbour YHA International Conservation Services
Rocks Walking Tours
Dig reveals convict past News.com.au

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